Sleep regression?

[Ditzys]

Hi.....I think my 13 week old is going through the regression. She has been taking her naps on me for about 6-7 weeks as she wouldn’t sleep in her Moses basket downstairs in the day, and although I knew I needed to stop this, we had started to get into a good routine of 3-4 naps in the day, getting a good 4-4 1/2 hours in before bedtime. Nighttime sleeping has generally been good, with a 4-5 hour stint at the beginning, then waking to feed every 3 hours, sometimes 2 1/2.

In the last few days/week, she’s been most more restless on me whilst napping, waking mid nap (about 30 mins) and needing to be settled to carry on sleeping. In more recent days, she’s only slept for 30-45 minutes at a time.

I decided that as she wasn’t sleeping well on me anyway, I may as well try to get her to nap in her cot, which is where she sleeps at night. She goes down fine but wakes after 18-20 minutes, without fail. This started only yesterday, but last night following an initial 4 hours, she was awake every 1-2 hours, sometimes for feeding, sometimes not.

I know shorter naps are normal with this regression/transition, but should I let her have some sleeps on me so she gets more, as I don’t know how she’ll get out of the cycle of overtiredness if it then affects her night sleep. How do they re-learn to sleep through the light phase of sleep, beyond the 20 minutes? Does it just happen by itself after a few weeks, or should I be doing something.

I would appreciate advice, but not the kind that tells me I shouldn’t have let her nap on me in the first place 😊 If she was sleeping well on me still, and then not in the cot, I will be inclined to think that it was the napping on me that was the problem, but I think it’s just that my timing is bad and it just so happens that she is going through the changes, whilst I’m trying to get her into her cot......should I keep letting her sleep on me for now until she’s past the regression, or persevere? 😕 She has a dummy and is in a lovetodream 50/50 swaddle. Her room is very dark and we use an Ollie owl white noise machine.

Thanks all

My dd has been sleeping awful this week, also 13 weeks. I assumed it was too early for sleep regression?

Also following for advice

I’ve read that it can happen anytime between 3 and 4 months, but like you, I was preparing myself for it to start in 2-3 weeks. Biologically she’s 14 weeks as she was a week late (based on wonder weeks), and there’s no other reason for it.....it’s the naps though, how do I get her to transition across the 20 minutes, when she’s too young to know how to get her dummy and put it back in? The same goes for the night really I suppose, but at least last night she went straight back to sleep when I put it back in, whereas she’s wide awake with her naps 😟 Maybe I should try a clip for her dummy, then she stands a better chance of putting it back in?

Then again, she can’t do that whilst still swaddled.....